Word: saundra
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Saundra Graham...
Like it or not, Saundra Graham is going to be elected city councilor again this year. So what if she favors strict rent control laws or that she has spent much time trying to arrange low interest loans to home-owners, or that she has voted for every downzoning petition proposed by Cambridge neighborhood groups. Graham will be re-elected because she is a populist in the old Mary "Raise-Less-Corn-More-Hell" Lease tradiiton. And Cambridge, with its Proportional Representation system, is a town that lends itself to electing populists if they have enough clout and identity with...
...problem, Crane thinks, may be in the form of government. "Under Proportional Representation, incumbents become more aware of their number one supporters. As long as they can keep them happy, they an afford to be independent of their colleagues," he says. Thus you get a Saundra Graham accountable only to her Riverside-Cambridgeport constituency and a David Wylie, responsible for the views of West Cambridge rather than all of the city...
...defeat two years ago, reform elements--backed by professional and university-affiliated groups in the city--have submerged their differences in an issue-oriented coalition under the banner of Cambridge Convention '75. Last spring the convention endorsed a slate composed of the four incumbent liberal councilors--Duehay, Barbara Ackermann, Saundra Graham and David A. Wylie--and four others, in an effort to improve their chances of capturing a majority of the city council...
...bring businesses and high rent housing into Cambridge to increase the property tax base, a task they say would be facilitated by the end of rent control and the curtailment of downzoning. At the other extreme, non-incumbent John Brode '52 (CC '75), formerly a co-founder with Saundra Graham of the radical Grass Roots Organization, points to what he calls a "causal link between high rise buildings and crime," and argues that tax dollars from development are eaten up by the cost of providing increased city services. Brode favors abolishing the property tax altogether and replacing it with...